From politicalprof
… is pretty simple to understand. The notion that there is a WAR ON CHRISTMAS in the United States – a country where huge percentages of its citizens attend church regularly, where evangelicalism has been on the rise for 30 years, where 25% or more of many stores’ annual sales are seasonally derived, and where Christmas carols and Christmas specials are an inescapable fact of life – is so gobsmackingly absurd that it renders people with even the slightest amount of intellectual honesty or discernment utterly speechless. It is an unanswerable charge because it is completely, unspeakably – literally unspeakably – false.
It is a topic, therefore, perfectly attuned to FOX’s “news” strategy: it allows FOX hosts to scream about the end of the world while facing no actual challenge or opposition to their ideas … especially on FOX News itself.
It’s actually brilliant. It also just happens to be false. But those two things don’t seem to cancel themselves out much these days, do they?
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